@Alston_Neal

Ants in my pants? I'm more concerned about the possible rattler.

Got stung between my eyes by a yellow jacket while using the fallen log technique. There was a nest in the log.

I once found a camera in 2015 in the Superstitions that was lost in 2010 and was able to recover the SD card. There were only a few photos on it, all showing the scenery where it was lost. However I used software found on the WEB to recover erased photos and from those recovered photos, with help fr...

@tibber
Looks like I won't have time to do all of the extra hike you were considering - maybe just the 1.6 mi hike up to the Horns of Dilemma and back. Following the part of Bruce and Joe's track up and down 2 creek beds can be slow going.

@tibber
Yes, I'm interested. It's all new territory for me.

@DixieFlyer
"Stumble upon it" is the appropriate phrase.

My thought is that these signs may have been related to logging and marked areas leased/sold by the Forest Service for logging.

@Hansenaz I did have a problem with gps files that I had filtered with the non-Garmin software but switching from Mapsource to Basecamp fixed that problem. I keep all my gps tracks saved on my pc in folders bearing the name of the area. When I return to an area I just go through the files in that f...

I've had a problem with gps tracks not showing up on my Garmin Oregon 450 and also not on the old predecessor to Garmin BaseCamp, I think it was called MapSource. I had used a non-Garmin program called "GPS Track Editor" to "filter local inconsistencies" on those problem tracks. ...

I often wear snake gaiters for off-trail hiking. These are the ones I use: https://www.amazon.com/d/Shoe-Gaiters/TurtleSkin-TurtleSkin%C2%AE-SnakeArmor-Snake-Gaiters/B00ITZDL90?tag=hikearizona They're expensive, don't breath, and require some ingenuity to attach. But they're light weight and flexibl...

@chumley
And all this time I thought you were a member of the Dev Team.

When I first started hiking in AZ and before I had found the HAZ website I actually believed that the trails described in AZ hiking books published 5 years earlier still existed. As a result on my first backpacking trip I spent a cold wet day in Feb 2010 wading up Deer Creek "Trail" #45 in...

@skatchkins
So when did you first start hiking in AZ? The timing might explain several incidences of hikers returning to the trailhead to find their cars were missing and then finding them at another trailhead.

do we have any reason to believe that the person he talked to was making it up? The guy was riding an ATV, said he and his wife had 1.5 hours of available time to hike when they came to the "landslide". He was unclear about whether or not they were even on the correct trail but had reache...

Regarding the boulder blocking FR203 just north of Devil's Chasm. I talked to a guy driving a blue 4x4 Tacoma down FR203 on April 11, 2017, who had just been up to Pueblo Canyon. He was able to drive around the boulder to get to the Pueblo Cny Ruins TH. His Taco looked stock and he didn't seem the t...

@RedRoxx44 My vehicle has 166K on it and it has seen some pretty demanding driving. OK, that will do it. Twice the mileage and most likely a much higher percentage of that has been on rough terrain compared to my FJ. Also, I've driven on a few of the "pretty demanding driving" places you'...

@Grasshopper I think I might have used low range 1st gear. Once. :) :lol: I've had the honor of experiencing your back road driving skills a couple of times. So, when I read that Tacos had the same problem you were the first person I thought of. As I recall you have broken part of the front suspens...

Just checked the motor mounts on my 2008 FJ, manual transmission model, stock skid pan, no added weight like winch, or heavy duty bumpers. It only has about 85K miles on it. Mounts and frame around mount welds look good as new. :) But I take it really easy on rough terrain, try to avoid hard bottomi...

@RedRoxx44
What a pain. I will check mine latet today as soon as I finish Grandpa duty. I'm wondering if I can see the area of the frame that cracks without moving stuff out of the way.

@RedRoxx44
Was the welding shop able to do the fix without lifting out the engine or removing major suspension or front drive line components?

I was at the Deer Creek TH on March 1. A map was posted on the TH gate showing the closed area. I took a photo of the map which might help answer some of the questions I see in this forum. [ photo ]